A developer wanted to build a facility to capture carbon. Locals saw an environmental menace.

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    This sentence is a clear indication these climate models are not accurate enough to be making serious decisions on:

    2018 report from a panel of United Nations scientists estimated the world will need to remove between 100 billion and 1 trillion metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere this century to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit)

    This is a 10x range in their model outputs.

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      13 days ago

      Look at the actual data. Not all models are equally valid, and in ensemble forecasts from a single model, you need to do a summation of the ensemble members to come up with a firm pseudo-deterministic estimate.